TAH Online Resources

Online Resources with Primary Documents for
Teaching U.S. History since 1945

Websites:
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution
The Bill of Rights
The Gettysburg Address
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Interstate Commerce Act
FDR's First Inaugural Address
FDR's "Four Freedoms" Speech

Lecture [Video]:
Dr. Gene Hatfield Part I Part II

The Cold War: At Home and Abroad

Websites:
Containment
       CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
NATO
Korean War
    NARA/The United States Enters the Korean Conflict
McCarthyism
    Communist Infiltration - Motion Picture Industry
   Hollywood 10

Lecture [Video]:
Dr. Mark Baumann

Economic Transformation: The Consumer Society

Websites:
The G.I. Bill
Fair Deal
    Harry Truman Video Clip List
Corporate America
The Suburban Dream
    Interstate Highway System
      Levittown
    NARA/Photographs and Pamphlet About Nuclear Fallout
The Baby Boom
Challenges to the Consumer Society

Lecture [Video]:
Dr. Kay Kemp Part I Part II

Lecture April 27, 2005 [Video]:
Dr. Steve Gillon "Boomer Nation"

PowerPoint Presentation:
"Austerity to Affluence"

Civil Rights: The Rise of the Movement

Websites:
History of Jim Crow
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
NARA/Documents related to Brown v. Board of Education
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
NAACP, SNCC, CORE, SCLC
The Campaigns: Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Atlanta
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1964 Civil Rights Act
1965 Voting Rights Act

Lecture [Video]:
Dr. Robert A. Pratt

Lecture October 12, 2004 [Video]:
Dr. Robert A. Pratt

PowerPoint Presentation:
"Civil Rights Struggle in Atlanta, 1944-2000"

Civil Rights: The Movement Broadens

Websites:
The Women's Movement
The Environmental Movement
The Youth Culture
The Free Speech Movement
The Diggers
The Rise of Ethnic America
The New Immigration

Lecture [Video]:
Dr. Glen Eskew Part I Part II Part III

Vietnam, Cuba, The Middle East, and the End of the Cold War

Websites:
On the Brink: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy, Johnson, and the "Limited War"
Vietnamization
U.S. Recognition of the State of Israel
Eisenhower Doctrine
Camp David Accords
Glasnost and Perestroika
The Fall of the Berlin Wall-Germany Reunited

PowerPoint Presentation:
"Vietnam: A Chronology of America's Longest War"

Photographs:
NARA/The War in Vietnam -A Story in Photographs

Political Gridlock

Websites:
The New Frontier
   NARA/Founding documents of the Peace Corps
The Great Society
Nixon and the New Conservatism
    Oliphant's political cartoons
Watergate
The Ford Presidency
Carter and the National Malaise
    Herblock's political cartoons
      Iran Hostage Crisis
Reagan and the Conservative Triumph
American Presidency in the 1980s
     Iran Contra Affair
The Pendulum Swings: The Clinton Years
     Impeachment

Lecture [Video]:
Dr. Pam Roseman Part I Part II

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Other Online Resources with Primary Historical Documents

Guide to Accompany Major Problems in American History since 1945
United States Since 1945
Contemporary History
American Presidency Project
U.S. Diplomatic History Resources Index
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
Images of American Political History
American Studies: Race, Ethnicity and Identity
Columbia Educational Resources Online
WWW-VL:History:USA: 1940-1950
WWW-VL:History:USA: 1950-1959
WWW-VL:History:USA: 1960-1969
WWW-VL:History:USA: 1970-1979
WWW-VL:History:USA: 1980-1989
WWW-VL:History:USA: 1990-1999
Federal Government Resources: Historic Documents
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1972
History Matters: Many Pasts
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
American Women's History: A Research Guide
American Radicalism
American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: An Online Archival Collection Harvard Project on Cold War Studies
JFK Assassination Records Collection Reference System
Virtual Vietnam Archive
Speech Archives (The History Channel)
Women of Our Time: Twentieth-Century Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery
Codification of Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders, 1945-1989
Supreme Court Decisions, 1937-1975
Historic Audio Archives
History and Politics Out Loud
Picture History
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Teaching American History Document Library
C-Span: The Civil Rights Movement & Its Leaders
Presidential Recordings
Historical Feature Films
Vintage Cartoons
Universal Newsreels
Ephemeral films (1927-1987)
National History Day Research Links

Atlanta History Center